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Govt should not interfere in private sector: Narayana Murthy

Last Updated: Sunday, January 25, 2015, 20:13

The country would see more economic progress if the private sector was left to run business without government interference, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy has said at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Children learning more of English, says Javed Akhtar

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 13:34

Javed Akhtar says that children from the middle class are learning English at the "cost of vernacular languages".

Weight loss has come really late to me: Ekta Kapoor

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 15:56

Film and Television producer Ekta Kapoor, says the idea of shedding weight to become fit and fab, came really late in her career.

Pak needs to show vision, generosity for better ties with India: Khurshid

Last Updated: Sunday, January 19, 2014, 23:31

Pakistan needs to show some vision and generosity for relations between itself and India to be normalised, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said here on Sunday

Shashi Tharoor will not attend Zee Jaipur Literature Festival

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 11:21

Union minister Shashi Tharoor, who was slated to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, will not attend the event following his wife`s death.

AAP victory set good example of democracy: Amartya Sen

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:52

Debutant Aam Aadmi Party`s victory in the recent Delhi Assembly Elections has set a good example of the strength of democracy in India, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said.

Filmmakers don`t read Hindi literature anymore: Manu Bhandari

Last Updated: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 20:55

Noted Hindi writer Manu Bhandari, whose novel `Yahi Sach Hai` was adapted into a movie `Rajnigandha` in 1974, says filmmakers of today do not read Hindi literature anymore.

Sonia Gandhi condoles writer Rajendra Yadav`s death

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 14:43

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi condoled the death of Hindi author Rajendra Yadav, describing him as one of the towering figures of modern progressive Hindi literature.

Original text of Tagore`s Nobel nomination on display

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 19:03

Commemorating the completion of hundred years of Rabindranath Tagore`s winning the Nobel prize in Literature, the original text of his nomination for the prestigious award was displayed publicly in India for the first time.

Vikings were more social than savage

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 14:26

Vikings - who gave birth to legendary tales of brutal warfare and conquest - were in fact a more civilised society than previously believed, a new study has found.

Satirist K P Saxena admitted to hospital, serious

Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 13:59

Hindi satirist and Padam Shri awardee K P Saxena has been admitted to a hospital in serious condition in the state capital.

Theatrical delight at Hindi Natya Utsav

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 16:01

Aiming to promote Hindi literature among the youth, veteran theatre directors are now staging a bouquet of plays based on Hindi short stories here.